5 09, 2025

Insured Losses in Texas Exceed $47 Billion in 2024

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Insured losses exceeded $47.2 billion in Texas last year—a 4.2% increase over 2023, according to a new property and casualty market report from the state’s insurance council. Annual direct losses in Texas have now increased in two consecutive years. Broken …

5 09, 2025

Tesla Says Its Robotaxi App Now Open to Public Riders

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Tesla Inc. said it has opened its robotaxi app to the general public, suggesting the company will soon roll out the service beyond a select group of early access users in Austin, Texas. The company’s Tesla Robotaxi account on social …

5 09, 2025

Minnesota Governor to Call Special Session on Gun Laws After School Shooting

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz plans to call a special legislative session to consider tougher gun laws following a shooting last week at a Catholic school in Minneapolis that left two children dead and 21 people injured. The Democrat told reporters …

5 09, 2025

Cultivated Meat Companies Sue Texas Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban

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Two cultivated meat companies have filed a lawsuit against officials in Texas over the law that bans the sales of lab-grown meat in the state for two years. California-based companies UPSIDE Foods, which makes cultivated chicken, and Wildtype, which makes …

5 09, 2025

People Moves: Alliant Human Capital Names Muller as Vice President

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Alliant Human Capital, a division of Alliant Insurance Services, announced the appointment of Brian Muller as Vice President. Muller brings more than 15 years of experience in both corporate and consulting HR, with a proven track record of delivering innovative …

5 09, 2025

Mass. Orders Insurers to Cover State-Backed Vaccines, Even Without CDC Support

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said Thursday the state had ordered insurers to cover vaccines backed by its health department, even if the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issue narrower recommendations. Insurers would no longer rely solely on CDC …

5 09, 2025

Trump to Ask Supreme Court to Toss Carroll’s $5 Million Abuse and Defamation Verdict

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President Donald Trump will soon ask the Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her, his …

5 09, 2025

People Moves: Judd Joins AXA XL Energy

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Judd Joins AXA XL Energy Underwriting Team AXA XL, in Stamford, Connecticut, hired Eric Judd as an executive underwriter on its energy underwriting team in the Americas in New York. With more than three decades of experience in the insurance …

5 09, 2025

Publisher Gannett Wins Dismissal of Nearly All of Journalists’ Job Bias Lawsuit

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Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, won the dismissal of most of a lawsuit, including all class action claims, alleging its diversity policies led to widespread discrimination against white journalists. U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston said on Wednesday the plaintiffs …

5 09, 2025

Apollo Settles Fight With Ex-Athene Executives Before Trial

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Apollo Global Management Inc. resolved a lawsuit against two former executives of insurance unit Athene Holding Ltd. just days before the matter was set to go to trial. In a Wednesday filing in New York state court, the private equity …